This has less to do with the Skull & Bones – I would wager – than with basic Texas politics. You deal with a lot of good ol’ boys, and the country tradition is that everyone gets a nickname.

Some personal examples: Big Rick, Little Rick (his son), Rick Paul (showed up after all the good Rick nicknames were taken), Toby the Mexican (to distinguish him from, wait for it…), White Toby, Big E, Little E. It just goes on that way. They’re not all polite of course, even when no offense is meant. For example, more state employees call Governor Abbott “Wheels” than probably should…

In that vein, Brother George (“The George who is not me”, which probably indicates he got there first), Big George, and Little George are all pretty reasonable sobriquets.

But for that matter, most of these read like Seinfeld inspired names: Tree Man, Sit Room Guy, and Altoid Boy are basically just contextual cues not too different from thr Virgin, Buble Boy, Babu, or Soup Nazi (“You people have a little pet name for everybody”).

Turd Blossom was always the weirdest. And while it sounds disgusting, “thrives amidst bullshit” is sort of the highest political compliment you can pay.